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3046-22: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses with Mental Health Disorders: Gifts of Hope and Healing to Psychiatric Patients

In this presentation you will hear inspiring accounts of psychiatric-mental health nurses with lived experience of mental health disorders providing care to psychiatric patients. You will learn how to better engage with your patients, utilize self-care strategies, and support your colleagues with mental health challenges.

Presenters: Susan V. Brammer, PhD, RN, CNE; Krystyna de Jacq, PhD, PMHNP-BC

Disclosures:  The APNA planners and faculty have no relevant financial relationships to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation.

Session Length:  42 minutes

Target Audience:  RN, APRN

Learning Outcome:
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Identify at least one gift from their lived experience that PMH nurses can share with psychiatric patients to promote recovery.

Keywords:  Lived Experience, Patient Care, Psychiatric-mental Health Nurse

Nursing Continuing Professional Development:
0.5 contact hours.  * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to presentation, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post-test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post-test and a score of 80% is required to pass. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. You cannot earn credit unless all steps are completed.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Originally Presented
APNA 36th Annual Conference
Long Beach, CA

The contact hours for this session expire:  October 1, 2025

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